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Pre-register your interest in an exclusive internship with Nous Group

Internship applications open across the year at Nous Group depending on vacancy, please first check our available roles before pre-registering for locations that are not currently open. 

Nous is a great place to work…

We deliver a dynamic and varied experience that generates positive influence and growth for our clients, our colleagues, and you. 

At Nous, we set you up for success. We’ve designed an intern opportunity to help you learn key consulting skills and extend your knowledge quickly. Allocated to real client projects, interns take ownership of the responsibilities of the role they are given, whilst being supported through a collaborative team environment. Nous is committed to learning and development of our interns, with the conclusion of the internship ideally resulting in a permanent position. 

We offer full time and part time positions for students engaged in tertiary studies relevant to our services lines. These opportunities can be tailored to meet course requirements in specific disciplines (i.e. Masters of Organizational Psychology or Masters in Commerce) or can be designed to suit the interests of those looking for an internship between semesters that will provide them with a pathway into management consulting.  

What we do...

Nous offer expert consulting services across a range of services including business strategy, public policy, organisational capability and development, transformational change, and digital strategy and capability. 

A snapshot of recent projects: 

• developing a strategy to respond to key health system challenges and reforms including the use of health analytics and technology 
• re-designing education innovation functions and organisation design for major universities 
• generating solutions using advanced data analytics techniques to better design policy, strategy, and services 
• developing an evidence base and strategy to inform Victoria’s offshore wind program
• designing a strategy for a major Australian bank to grow overseas operations
• reviewing care coordination for Indigenous Australians with chronic disease, using data analytics and drawing on consultations with service providers and Indigenous clients 
• the implementation of a financial service providers’ new leadership and cultural change
• using co-design techniques, worked with victims and perpetrators of family violence to create a service development plan for a contact centre. 

Interns and placement students at Nous are allocated to real client projects and work collaboratively with Nous consultants to undertake activities:

• designing, administering and analysing qualitative and quantitative data & surveys
• work on tasks that allows you to demonstrate structured thinking, problem solving methods and techniques
• contribute to the thinking on projects or proposals both verbally and in writing
• conducting research and summarising key issues and themes important to client projects
• contributing to the design and development of materials for client workshops
• attending client meetings, workshops and focus groups and analysing and reporting on the results of these consultations
• adopt Nous style. Picking up branding, templates and writing style
• build relationships across Nous

More about Nous

Nous is an international management consultancy with over 700 people working across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Ireland and Canada. We are a values-based organisation that is inspired and determined to improve people’s lives in significant ways. Working in unique, cross-disciplinary teams we create innovative and enduring solutions that transform businesses, governments, and communities. We realise a bigger idea of success. 

Nous is regularly acknowledged as a great place to work as part of competitive workplace reviews. In 2023 Nous was again named one of Australia’s Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work and was recognised as one of LinkedIn’s best places to grow a career, as a LinkedIn Top Company (Australia). We have previously been named Best Management Consulting Firm by the Australian Financial Review on a number of occasions and a Great Place to Work every year that we’ve entered (Australia). We’re excited to be extending success and influence globally having recently been awarded a Great Place to Work in Canada and the UK in 2023.

Do you have what it takes? 

Nous is looking for interns and placement students who are:

• enthusiastic, curious, and eager to learn
• intelligent and academically accomplished
• skilled in strong quantitative analysis
• able to work efficiently at pace, and are well organised, with the ability to manage multiple pieces of work simultaneously
• able to undertake structured qualitative analysis in a logical and efficient manner
• able to demonstrate excellent written and oral communication skills
• effective at working autonomously and in a self-managed way, using initiative to draw on the expertise of those around you.

Finally, some important details...

Nous is an equal opportunity employer. We take pride in the inclusive workplace we have built, acknowledged by the Diversity Council of Australia as a 2021-2022 Inclusive Employer, reflecting both the diversity of our people and our supportive people, culture and policies. We are one of only 100 organisations nationally that have a Stretch Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Reconciliation Action Plan. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and First Nations people.

If you are energetic, highly capable, and interested in working in a fast-paced environment as part of a high performing dynamic team, working on complex problems that puts people at the centre of everything, we'd love to hear from you! Please click apply below. We will review your application and be in contact as soon as possible. Please keep an eye out on your spam folder, just in case.

To apply for a role at Nous in Australia you must have Australian Permanent Residency or the right to work in Australia. 

Please note if you are successful in the recruitment process, you will be required to undertake background screening prior to your commencement at Nous.